Camp remains a powerful experience for youth of any age, but special care must be taken to ensure camps are supportive diverse audiences. This article describes the process by which 4-H camp organizers created welcoming and affirming teen dependents active duty, retired, or veteran military personnel, especially those campers who identified as non-binary LGBTQ+. included careful consideration l...

BACKGROUND Dynamic training schedules introduce novel challenges to medical specialty training programs that require manual dexterity. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of a 3-day, intensive pediatric echocardiography course ("boot camp") on trainee self-efficacy and on the acquisition and short-term retention of basic echocardiographic knowledge and skills for first-year pediatri...

Psychiatric camps in the manner they are usually conducted serve no useful purpose in the long run, except to identify cases and to increase people's awareness about mental illnesses. The main drawback is poor follow up of the cases detected.To overcome these drawbacks and to make these camps more useful in delivering mental health services to the community, a new approach is being worked out. ...

Intracellular signals that trigger long-term (24-hour) changes in membrane currents in identified neurons of Aplysia have been examined in order to understand the cellular mechanisms underlying long-term sensitization. Adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) was directly injected into individual sensory neurons to mimic the effects of sensitization training at the single cell level. Potassium curr...

BACKGROUND Stress fractures account for substantial morbidity for young women undergoing U.S. Marine Corps basic training. HYPOTHESIS Certain pretraining characteristics identify women at increased risk of stress fractures during boot camp. STUDY DESIGN Cohort study; Level of evidence, 2. METHODS Data collected included baseline performance on a timed run (a measure of aerobic fitness), a...

The focus of ElectronixTutor is to build an intelligent tutoring system technology for Navy-relevant applications in training. The goal is to have an ITS for Apprentice Technician Training (ATT) courses in electronics for naval trainees who have completed boot camp and are in the process of A-school training under the Navy Educational Training Command and to supplement the human instruction wit...

Recognition of the molecular mechanisms of cAMP action against DNA damage-induced apoptosis can be useful to improve the efficacy of DNA damaging therapeutic agents. Considering the critical role of bcl-2-associated death promoter (BAD) and p53 proteins in DNA damage -induced apoptosis, the aim of this study was to assess the effect of cAMP-elevating agents on these proteins in doxorubicin-trea...